Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Toulouse (W. Galloway, Drumr. 42nd Foot) very fine £800-£1,000

William Galloway enlisted into the 42nd Foot as a Boy Drummer on 16 December 1803, for a bounty of £5-10-6. He appears on all Muster Rolls through to 1808, and is then shown on the 8 January 1809 muster as ‘Missing in Spain’, just prior to the battle of Corunna. In March 1814, Galloway reappears in the Muster Rolls and is noted as ‘Joined from a Prisoner of War’ on the 24th of that month. The roll also shows him as having been wounded at the battle of Toulouse on 10 April 1814. He was discharged to the 3rd Garrison Battalion in May/June 1815, from whence he was admitted to a Chelsea Pension in October 1816, in consequence of ‘wounded jaw and debility’.